Three brothers, one a printer, two were stonemasons, emigrated from Scotland. The printer apprenticed his son, Leslie Alexander Kirkpatrick to his stonemason brother. Leslie eventually migrated to Welland where he met and married widow, Beatrice (Misener) O'Brine.In 1929, Leslie started L. A. Kirkpatrick & Son in a tiny shop in Fonthill with his then 14-year-old stepson Earle. Many a tale was t...View More